Kill Bill celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, discover the details and hidden references to Quentin Tarantino’s film!
In 2003, 5 years after the relative failure of his Jackie Brown (still 1.3 million tickets sold in France), Quentin Tarantino returned with a muscular action film, the first part of a story planned in two parts: Kill Bill! An event that remains in the memory of all the spectators of the time and those who followed!
Everything you need to know about the 10th and final film from the director of Pulp Fiction!
Kill Bill tells the story of the revenge of “the Bride”, left for dead in the middle of the desert by a commando who ruined her marriage. The only survivor, a former hitwoman, she goes on the hunt for assassins until she goes back to their leader: a certain Bill.
Miramax
At the time, the film delighted local cinema lovers and those brought up in video clubs: the film buff Tarantino had a field day by placing lots of winks, sometimes obvious, sometimes more pointed which delighted the spectators! Examples ? Let’s go !
Miramax
The Bride wears Bruce Lee’s outfit in The Game of Death, the use of split-screen recalls the cinema of her idol Brian De Palma, the violent animation sequence is inspired by the Indian thriller Aalavandhan by Suresh Krishna, the sunglasses on the dashboard of the Texas Ranger’s car are reminiscent of those of the hero of the Heist films, the list goes on!
Miramax
Besides, for fun, here are a few more: the Bride speaking at her feet echoes a similar scene of a disabled John Wayne in The Eagle Flies in the Sun by John Ford, when she spits at the The hospital is a nod to Patrick (1978), the International Detachment of Assassin Vipers recalls the 5 deadly venoms of Chang Cheh (1978) and the costumes worn by the numerous fighters of Crazy 88 are similar to those of Crime Syndicate 2 by John Woo.
Miramax Films/MGM
Kill Bill / The Eagle Flies in the Sun
On May 17, Kill Bill: Volume 2 will also celebrate its 20th anniversary. Perhaps this anniversary will be celebrated on the Croisette at the Cannes Film Festival, where Quentin Tarantino is one of the regulars? To be continued…
And if you’ve read this far, you gain an additional reference: when the Bride cuts the leg of one of her opponents while balancing on a railing, he falls in slow motion into a scarlet-colored pool, a reference to Scarface’s fall in De Palma’s film of the same name.